gauge cluster question
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From: Lost
You will need to swap the shift indicator, but that's simple. Manual trans clusters have a blank plate that fits in the same screw holes as the auto trans gear indicator.
The tach should actually work correctly, since it's the same unit for both I6 and V8 engines. There is an extra wire used for V8's, and it's made into the engine harness.
Should be totally plug and play.
I put an 85 tach/trip cluster from a V8 truck into my 80 I6 truck. That wasn't quite plug and play, as the 80 dash is wired differently from 81-86.
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It will work if:
- you have gauges and you replace with the cluster with one with gauges
- you have idiot lights and you replace the cluster with one with idiot lights
The plugs between the two units are not interchangeable, nor is the charging system wiring.
- you have gauges and you replace with the cluster with one with gauges
- you have idiot lights and you replace the cluster with one with idiot lights
The plugs between the two units are not interchangeable, nor is the charging system wiring.
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Gauges = fuel, oil pressure, water temperature, battery charge.
Idiot lights = red lights for the battery charge (alternator) and, um, I think maybe the water temp, I forget. The other two are gauges, not idiot lights.
THOSE are the gauges I'm referring to, the presence or absence of a tachometer is irrelevant.
Idiot lights = red lights for the battery charge (alternator) and, um, I think maybe the water temp, I forget. The other two are gauges, not idiot lights.
THOSE are the gauges I'm referring to, the presence or absence of a tachometer is irrelevant.
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If you have oil pressure and Amp guages in the current cluster, and the replacement, then it will work. oil/alt lights in 1, will derail the process though. I don't think a tach was offered with the oil/alt lights.
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Then it should work fine. If the tach doesn't work, post up, there's a plug under the hood that *might* need plugged together.
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